The Onion's 1,143rd Twin Cities Issue Celebratory Gathering
The Onion's 1,143rd Twin Cities Issue Celebratory Gathering With Sexiness, Music, And Crap Like That
featuring
DOSH
Pink Mink
BNLX
Zebulon Pike
Fuck Knights
Grant Cutler and The Gorgeous Lords
plus
Karaoke by "The Infernal Singalong Machine" in the 7th St Entry
Hosted by David Campbell
DOSH
There he was, this musically lucked child of a once-priest and a near-nun, 12 years old and piled high with a Radio Shack combo stereo, stacks of records, and pockets full of dubbed tapes. It was 1984 and Martin Dosh was orchestrating the soundtracks to his junior high school dances, playing only the choice cuts for the budding romantics and perspiring wallflowers: Run DMC, Prince, Devo, the Cars, New Order...
PINK MINK
Pink Mink was what happened when everyone was making other plans. Christy Hunt had returned from 2 years of touring as the guitarist for the Von Bondies and posted a defeatist post about quitting music and going back to school. Longtime friend Arzu Gokcen saw this post and threatened to lock her in a closet with her guitar until she changed her mind. The two, at similar crossroads in their musical paths, decided to give playing together a shot. And it worked beautifully.
BNLX
BNLX has been meeting and/or exceeding expectations whilst providing mission critical noise solutions to the entertainment sector since Q1 | 2010. The band is a two-piece noise/electronic ensemble featuring musicians; it also incorporates visual and narrative elements. These compositions combine rhythmically-expressed poetry in popular idiomatic vernacular (“rhymes“) with pulsating percussive elements (“beats”) and harmonic modulations/variations/transpositions (melody). The resulting unique juxtaposition of auditory and narrative elements can only be described as “music”.
ZEBULON PIKE
Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, ZEBULON PIKE is an instrumental prog-doom metal band formed in late 2002. Inspired in equal parts by heavy sounds of the 70's (Mountain, Pentagram, Captain Beyond, early Judas Priest), progressive rock (King Crimson, Rush), and 20th century classical (Bela Bartok, Arvo Part, and many others). ZEBULON PIKE combines the impact of metal with the considered approach of "art" music. The result is a rather refined, muted aggression necessary for inciting the slow motion apocalypse.
FUCK KNIGHTS
"Fully endorsed" by Maximumrocknroll and described by Mongrel Zine as "way cool psychedelic garage punk", Fuck Knights' raging, ragged rock and roll, according to Smashin' Transistors, "pays homage to the 60s but doesn't care to sit around and play dress up because it's been proven that jumping in a time machine is corny. They just wanna play loud, probably get drunk and maybe get laid (or get arrested trying)."
GRANT CUTLER AND THE GORGEOUS LORDS
Lookbook’s beatmaster steps out to the forefront with his latest project, Grant Cutler & The Gorgeous Lords. Fans of the electro-pop duo are in for a surprise - Cutler’s solo material is a clear departure, better-suited for lying alone on your bedroom floor than the dance floor. The timeless sound, accompanied by his capable baritone and sparse guitar, brings to mind a spacey, epic version of Leonard Cohen, or a contemporary take on ‘70s pop balladeer Scott Walker.
DJ JAKE RUDH
Former Radio K, REV 105 & NPR alum and present host on The Current, Jake's been voted "best DJ" in the Twin Cities by the readers & critics of City Pages magazine nine years running (2003-2011) and one of Star Tribune's "Artists of the Year" (2012).
DAVID CAMPBELL
David Campbell is host of "Radio Free Current," Saturdays 7-11 p.m. and "The Local Show," Sundays 6-8 p.m. Campbell is a long-time veteran of the Twin Cities scene. A fan, musician, record store clerk, record label staffer, and a 10-year staffer of KQRS and Drive 105's "Homegrown," Campbell's love for Minnesota music makes him a perfect fit for The Current.
